Lexus LC F Is Happening, Will Go Turbo

The hot LC is apparently slated to get a 620-horsepower, twin-turbo, 4.0-liter V-8.

Despite Lexus's vehement denial to The Drive of the existence of an F-tuned LC coupe earlier this year, a new report from Japanese auto mag Holiday Auto speaking to an anonymous company insider now says that an LC F is indeed happening.

While displacement will go down, horsepower sure as hell won't as the report goes on to say that the turbocharged LC F will be good for 620-horsepower—an entire Mazda3's worth of grunt more than the LC 500's 471 ponies. It also bests that of the 577-horse Mercedes-AMG GT R and 610-hp Audi R8 V-10 Plus.

Holiday Auto also says that the LC F will cost the equivalent of around $176,800 and reach production in 2019 at the earliest.

A Lexus employee confirmed to The Drive that an LC F is indeed a thing that's understood to be in the works, even corroborating the above report's claims of it using a twin-turbo 4.0-liter.